Top 10 - Questions I Have For God

Growing up, I always sort of believed that it wasn't OK to question God. I don't know that an adult ever actually went so far as to tell me I shouldn't, but that is what I picked up as a young lad in a small church. The general feeling was one of "how can someone so small and insignificant DARE to question the Almighty?"

Part of growing into an adult is questioning the things we've grown up believing. We all start to question our beliefs; to examine them more closely. We wonder why certain things happened the way they happened. We make plenty of mistakes because, as it's been for every generation through history, we definitely know better than our parents!

God did not give us that inquisitive nature and then expect us not to use it!!! Humans desire to learn, to stretch horizons, and to better ourselves. We can't do any of that without asking questions and lots of them. Just look around at all mankind has accomplished and realize that someone, somewhere asked questions and then set about figuring out the answers. Somebody figured out that wood floats and could be made into a boat. Somebody thought it might be cool to see the stars up close and figured out how much energy it would take to propel a rocket into space. Somebody saw people dying of disease and figured out how to create medicine that could heal them.

Yes, we're created to question our surroundings and to search for the answers. How could we not have questions for God, and why would He prohibit us from asking them? I am a Christ follower, so I have already managed to answer the questions of salvation, but I am going to list ten of the questions here (I have sooo many more than that!) that I would like to have answered someday. I hope you enjoy them and that you have a greatly blessed week!

• 10 - Why are the prettiest flowers the kind that don't grow back the next year...and if they don't grow back the next year how is that I can buy more of them at the store next year?
• 09 - Is free will really free or did You already know exactly which way I would go on every decision I ever made...or both?
• 08 - Do You spend more of the time being proud of us or disappointed in us...or both?
• 07 - Is there a more loving and obedient heart anywhere in creation than a dog's?
• 06 - Were cats your example of both stubbornness and arrogance?
• 05- How many of the failures of my life were purely self-inflicted and preventable?
• 04 - We all have gifts, but it seems like everyone should have common sense.  Do only some people have it or do they all have it and they just don't use it?
• 03 - When I get to Heaven, will I still be able to enjoy things like ice cream...and can I eat all I want? in a good
• 02 - Did You cry when we killed Your Son, even though You knew it was going to happen...and what was to come next?
• 01 - You created all of us, so why do we spend so much time fighting over our differences when You are the thing we all have in common?